Jaime Lerner Quotes
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My health is fine.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
